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Steven Muñatones
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Steven Muñatones was an American water polo player, a collegiate swimmer, and an open water swimmer from Huntington Beach, California. He has been a coach, administrator, writer, race director, kayaker, paddler, official, observer, author, lifeguard, reporter, Olympic commentator, aquapreneur, and adviser in the the sport of open water swimming.
He founded the World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, WOWSA Awards, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global, and KAATSU Research Foundation and served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association. He has written over 21,344 articles on open water swimming, water polo, and KAATSU to date. He created the www.imshof.org, www.openwaterswimming.com, www.openwaterpedia.com, and www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com websites among many others.
He received the 1984 Harvard University John B. Imrie Award, 1990 Guinness World Record, 2001, 2005, 2007 USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee Award, 2002 Honor Swimmer, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, 2007 & 2010 USA Swimming Glen S. Hummer Award, 2010 Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2016 Poseidon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2018 Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, 2019 Honor Contributor – Media of the International Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, and 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
Giannis Kotsiopoulos, For The Love of the Open Water
Giannis Kotsiopoulos born in Athens in 1953 first started open water swimming in Toroneos Gulf in...
Shark Attack, Follow-up Questions
On December 21st, 55-year-old Erica Fox, co-founder of the Kelp Krawlers, was reportedly attacked...
The Speed, Stamina, and Experience of Olympic 10K Marathon Swimmers – The 2024 Men
28 men lined up on the starting pontoon that spanned the Seine at the 2024 Olympic 10K Marathon...
In His Prime – Beyond The Shoreline With Steven Leitch
Steve and Kelly Leitch starred in Beyond the Shoreline: The Channel of Bone, a documentary film that is now being streamed on Amazon Prime Video,
Brutally Cold, Brutally Tough: Krzysztof Gajewski Is Hardened To The Core
Krzysztof Gajewski completed the longest ice swim in history with a 6.025 km swim in 4.18°C water, taking 1 hour 52 minutes in a lake in Kopalnia Wroclaw, Poland.
Taking To The Waters of New York City and New York State in 2026
https://youtu.be/B-0iBgQVF_AVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Drury Gallagher Acceptance Speech for the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Induction (https://youtu.be/B-0iBgQVF_A) Drury Gallagher was inducted in...